Do You Know If You Slept During The Mslt?

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I think I may have slept for 1 or 2 of the naps but I'm not sure. It felt like I went from thinking random thoughts to very vivid thoughts...which happened during each nap. I couldn't tell if I was sleeping or not because I sometimes heard noises outside of the room. The last nap, it felt like I was laying there for 5 minutes.

Right now, I have to wait for a month to get the results. I'm hoping to see if they can get me in sooner to go over the test results.

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I could immediately tell that I had slept in four of them; in a fifth (not the last one) I thought I had been dreaming, but I had also maintained a general awareness of my surroundings in the room (including the low hum of a pipe or something), but at the same time, it's not entirely out of the ordinary for me to be both dreaming (rather than hallucinating) and maintaining this kind of partial awareness of my surroundings. What made it clear that I had been sleeping though was, at the end of the 30 minutes when the nurse came back in, my extreme grogginess and disorientation (and being unable to string together a coherent sentence, waiting for a good 30 seconds until I was all there again), something which I find characteristic of when I have been napping and have having entered a certain kind of sleep.

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During my first MSLT, I remember thinking that I'd only slept for a couple minutes during one of the naps, but it turns out I'd slept during 3 or 4 of them, and fell asleep really quickly as well. I think it was an average of about 4 minutes till I was asleep. I had no REM at all, but I was on anti-depressants which suppress REM sleep.

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My doctor made me go back for a sleep study for some freaking reason. I don't know why - he just likes to send me for them every couple of years. But this was a different center. They didn't put my diagnosis in the notes - and I guess I didn't do my normal crazy garbage during the night because they let me take Ambien. So I did fall asleep during the naps. They were like you may be able to leave after 4. But I guess I went into REM in #4 and it was the first one where they saw that so the nurse came in and said,"I'm sorry, we have to keep you for a 5th nap." I said, "Oh, did I go into REM?" And she looked at me with surprise and I said, "Well, I have narcolepsy so I wouldn't be surprised and I totally had a dream." And she said it wasn't in the notes and said, "Well, I guess you're not getting a surprise then. I always get sad when I see that pop up."

It made me feel good that they don't like seeing the results while they're recording them.